Brains and Eggs: Sunday Funnies

We put together a cartoon collection about Elon Musk's 'awkward gesture': https://t.co/e5Us1QKaNz

This one is by Oliver Ploux.#ElonMusk #nazisalute pic.twitter.com/u8KrtiIxZ6
— Cartoon Movement (@cartoonmovement) January 22, 2025

The future of the next generation is being stolen due to the misconception of endless growth on our finite planet. The Earth is a closed system for materials. "We are stealing the future, selling it in the present, and calling it GDP" - Paul Hawkenhttps://t.co/DLIGn4uJnd
— Peter Dynes (@PGDynes) January 12, 2024

Medicare for All#SocialistSunday pic.twitter.com/AbBHq010MV
— screamschildrenremoved (@PDiddie) April 13, 2025

This cartoon was drawn in 2009. pic.twitter.com/nwDtBVjU2M
— Friendly Neighborhood Comrade (@SpiritofLenin) July 27, 2024

most of what we fight over is made up pic.twitter.com/KQ4e6o9umf
— HumanBeingAwkward (@humanbeingawk) November 28, 2025

The Bullock Museum completed a five-year project in December to make all 16,000 years of Texas history encapsulated within its walls available to visitors in both English and Spanish.https://t.co/hGF86uGJx9
— KUT Austin (@KUT) February 8, 2024

If you zoom in on this 1873 map of Houston, you'll see all sorts of interesting stuff, including the confluence of Buffalo Bayou and White Oak Bayou, which, because it formed a natural turning basin for boats to turn around, was the primary reason the Allen Brothers, John Kirby… pic.twitter.com/yEZ8x47u7r
— Traces of Texas (@TracesofTexas) February 6, 2025

Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

Second Nexus

JD Vance Slammed For His Comically Evil Laugh After Fox Host Asks Him About Running For President In 2028 - On Tuesday, MAGA Republican Vice President JD Vance appeared on Fox News' *The Story with Martha MacCallum*. During the segment, Vance was asked about his...
Raw Story

GOP donor's Epstein denials dismantled on MS NOW: 'Come on, man. No one believes that' - US billionaire Les Wexner, who is a central character in the Jeffrey Epstein files and who helped the convicted sex trafficker amass a substantial portio...
Courthouse News

Polar seltzer suit stumbles - SAN FRANCISCO — For a second time, a California federal court dismissed two consumers’ false advertising suit against the maker of Polar Seltzer, whose bot...
San Antonio Current

Another San Antonio man arrested for making online death threat against Mayor Jones - San Antonio police have arrested a local man on charges that he made a death threat against San Antonio Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones. Officers took Ignacio Z...
memeorandum

Six deaths in six weeks: What to know about ICE detentions in Texas (The Texas Tribune) - The Texas Tribune: *Six deaths in six weeks: What to know about ICE detentions in Texas* — Last year was the deadliest year in ICE detention in two dec...
Houston Public Media

UT system votes to limit ‘controversial topics’ in class, raising concerns about academic freedom - It's the latest move in the Texas higher education systems for the state to have more control over what is taught at public universities.
Mediaite

‘This Is a Huge Shift!’ Mediaite’s Luke Touma Explains Why James Talarico Is Being ‘Cancelled’ by MAGA - Luke Touma broke down what he claims is the real reason the FCC has been going after U.S. Senate candidate James Talarico (D-TX) for appearing on shows. ...
Futurism

Blinking New Warning Sign Appears for AI Industry - Wall Street is terrified of what could come next. The post Blinking New Warning Sign Appears for AI Industry appeared first on Futurism.
Scheerpost.com

Bernie Sanders’ “Billionaire Tax Now” - Posted by Joshua Scheer California’s 2026 election isn’t just another policy fight — it’s a stress test for whether democracy can still regulate concentrat...
Mother Jones

Tennessee Said Yes to ICE—and Turned Into a Deportation State - On a rainy evening in early May, several armed ICE agents in tactical vests closed in on a small red sedan at a gas station in South Nashville. The driver,...
Axios

As prices rise, corporate America braces for the blame - The pricing and affordability debate is heating up, and it's likely to get even more politicized ahead of the 2026 midterms. *Why it matters: *Rising cos...
The Hill

MAGA media cheers Quinn Hughes for praising U.S. after game-winning goal - Minnesota Wild defenseman Quinn Hughes emerged as an overtime hero for Team USA on Wednesday, with a goal to lift the U.S. over Sweden en route to the men'...
Capital & Main

Cuts Aimed at Abortion Are Hitting Basic Care - Emergency state support for Planned Parenthood can’t fully offset lost Medicaid dollars, and patients are paying the price. The post Cuts Aimed at Aborti...
Eschaton

Bomb Bomb Bomb Bomb Iran - The "uniparty" isn't true of everything, but it is true of loving war, all war, and only the "crazies" in Congress will complain about bombing the shit out...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Wastewater testing reveals high levels of cocaine in Nantucket, Massachusetts - Up to three times national average of metabolite produced by human use of drug was found in town’s wastewater Tests on wastewater in an upscale Massachus...
Crooked Media

Can she fix it? Hannah the plumber and politician on tackling Reform - The post Can she fix it? Hannah the plumber and politician on tackling Reform appeared first on Crooked Media.
Ballot Access News

Idaho Bill for Presidential Primaries - The Idaho House Affairs Committee has introduced HB 638, which would restore presidential primaries. Any qualified party would be entitled to a presidentia...
Salon.com

How Jesse Jackson made room for white workers - Before Democrats fractured, Jackson united workers across race and region — and provided a model for today’s party
Al Jazeera English

Trump suggests Iran has 10 days to reach agreement with US - US president says at inaugural Board of Peace summit that Washington and Tehran should make a 'meaningful deal'.
Dissident Voice

No Public Funds for Secular or Religious Charter Schools - Charter schools are private entities. They are businesses first and foremost, not schools. Calling them “public” does not make them public in any way, sh...
Undernews

Environmental Groups Sue Trump’s EPA Over Repeal of Landmark Climate Finding - *The Guardian * - More than a dozen health and environmental justice non-profits have sued the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) over its revocation of...
NPR's Health Shots

'Dude, good luck': the Olympic wit and wisdom of a pioneering African skeleton racer - Who says serious athletes are always serious? Akwasi Frimpong, who's competed for Ghana, is a world-class wisecracker as he reflects on being a Black Afric...
The Week

The Gallivant: style and charm steps from Camber Sands - Nestled behind the dunes, this luxury hotel is a great place to hunker down and get cosy
Election Law Blog

“Amid debate in Congress, Florida’s Republican Legislature pushes election law changes” - Politico: Florida, the home of the chaotic 2000 presidential recount, may enact tough new proof-of-citizenship requirements for voting currently at the c...
CultureMap Houston

4 wellness concepts are first tenants at new Memorial City development - Greenside, the wellness-focused development in a former warehouse complex located just north of Memorial City Mall at 1085 Gessner Rd, has announced its fi...
The Verge

Xenoblade Chronicles X is $20 off in time for its Switch 2 upgrade - Nintendo just released a Switch 2 upgrade for Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition. The upgrade is $4.99 for owners of the Switch game, or $64.99 if ...
ArcaMax

Big Brother Is Making You Watch Him - A poster depicting an enormous face gazed from the wall. The caption ran, "BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU." So wrote George Orwell at the open of his dystopia...
Daily Howler

KAFKA'S DESCENDANTS: "I didn't expect the killings," she said! - *THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2026* *A hint of the Kafkaesque:* For one person with whom the New York Times spoke, her experience of the past year may have bec...
SCOTUSblog

Can courts excuse late removals to federal court? - As many law students learn in their civil procedure course, when a plaintiff files suit in state court asserting a claim over which a federal district co...
The Progressive Wing

2/19 News Roundup & Open Thread - California is proposing a 5% wealth tax on 200 billionaires worth $2T to protect health care for 3M people. Let’s get it done—and make billionaires fina...
naked capitalism

Big Tech Accused of AI ‘Greenwashing’ - A new report has found that “the promises of planet-saving tech remain hollow”.
Bracing Views

Trump’s $1.5 Trillion Military - Hail Caesar! BILL ASTORE FEB 16, 2026 The Pentagon has failed eight consecutive financial audits. For decades it has been unable to account for trillions o...
Ian Welsh

Genocide & Brown Shirts Are Being Normalized - So we have an ongoing genocide in Gaza. The death toll, as estimated by scientists, is probably north of half a million. (The official toll is laughable an...
Glasstire

Arts Organizations in San Antonio, Houston, and North Texas Announce New Hires - The McNay Art Museum and Bihl Haus Arts in San Antonio, the City of Houston Office of Arts, the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas, and Fort Worth communi...
Mediagazer

Imax partners with Apple TV to show five 2026 Formula One races across at least 50 US Imax locations, as Imax continues to push into live events (Etan Vlessing/The Hollywood Reporter) - Etan Vlessing / The Hollywood Reporter: *Imax partners with Apple TV to show five 2026 Formula One races across at least 50 US Imax locations, as Imax co...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

The American Religion: Imperialism and the Next Step of Modern Fascism - As we stand on the edge of war with Iran, a new phase of authoritarianism rears its head
Bonddad

Presidents’ Day week jobless claims pose a quandary - * - by New Deal democrat* Later this morning I’ll discuss yesterday’s positive durable goods orders release, and in that context I’ll also have more ...
The Conversation

Last nuclear weapons limits expired – pushing world toward new arms race - The expiration of the New START treaty has the US and Russia poised to increase the number of their deployed strategic nuclear weapons, pushing the world i...
Democracy Now!

Former Prince Andrew Arrested in U.K. as Global Fallout from Epstein Files Grows - U.K. police have arrested the former Prince Andrew, the brother of King Charles, on suspicion of misconduct in public office. Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor wa...
The NM Political Report

Before pledging to “prosecute ICE,” Bregman was a “go-to” defense attorney for cops accused of crimes - Columnists in NM Political ReportPat Davis is the founder and publisher of NM Political Report, City Desk ABQ and the nm.news network. He is a recoverin...
Techdirt.

CBS Decides That NOT Airing Associates Of Sex-Trafficking Pedophiles Would Be Woke - We’ve noted how Bari Weiss’ tenure at CBS (or what’s left of it) isn’t really going very well. Hired by Trump-allied billionaire Larry Ellison to turn what...
Consortium News

With Andrew Arrested, Mandelson Faces Similar Probe, Plus Questions on Tory Ties to Israel - The disgraced Labour grandee Peter Mandelson appears to have kept ties with Conservatives long after his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein emerged, reports M...
First Draft

Shecky’s Quick Hitters: Thursday Morning - Punching through the MAGA chaos and remembering Jesse Jackson.
Novara Media

UN Investigation Finds ‘Hallmarks of Genocide’ in Sudan - [image: A child from El Fasher sleeps on the dusty ground outside a tent.]Atrocities committed by paramilitaries in Sudan bear the “hallmarks of genocide”, ...
Rallblog

Meta BS | DeProgram with Ted Rall and John Kiriakou - LIVE 9:00 am Eastern time, Streaming Anytime: Political cartoonist Ted Rall and CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou deprogram you from mainstream media every...
Space City Weather

Warm weather continues for three more days; also what do you want to see from us this year? - In brief: The overall forecast has not changed much, with warm weather persisting through Saturday afternoon before a cool front arrives. Also, we’re welco...
Vox

The hottest new winter sport is about to get even hotter - Over the past few winters, where I live — in one of the country’s winter sport meccas — there have been a whole lot more people packing skins and stepping ...
Deadline Politics

Iranian Film Body IIFMA Collates List Of Dead & Detained Musicians, Filmmakers, Actors & Artists – Berlin - The Iranian Independent Filmmakers Association (IIFMA) was back at the Berlinale this year with a stand, flashmob and a panel discussion on why it believes...
Daily Cartoonist

CSotD: The Great Pretender - Where to begin? Easy answer, thanks to Toro, who states today’s premise clearly. The next question is what to include, and in what order?We prbably need on...
Mondoweiss

The Palestinians stuck in the no-man’s-land of Jerusalem and the Israeli settlement plan to expel them - [image: Kufr Aqab. (Photo: Qassam Muaddi/Mondoweiss)]Tens of thousands of Palestinians in the Qalandia refugee camp and Kufr Aqab are cut off from Jerusale...
Earth 911

The Sustainable Consumer’s Guide to Amazon Shopping - Is it sustainable to shop on Amazon? This is an important question, since almost everyone... The post The Sustainable Consumer’s Guide to Amazon Shopping...
WhoWhatWhy

How to Transform 30×30 From a Political Slogan Into an Ecological Reality - [image: Ocean, waves, day time] The recently enacted High Seas Treaty offers an opportunity to protect the ocean like never before. How to Transform 30×30...
OpEd News

Returning to Rome: Redrawing My Map of God and the World - As a former Catholic priest, returning to Rome has stirred memories of the God-image that accompanied my early formation and of the experiences and intelle...
The Smirking Chimp

Trump Administration’s New Warrants Come Back To Bite Them -
Skeptophilia

Twinkle, twinkle, little antistar - It's a big mystery why anything exists. I'm not just being philosophical, here. According to the current most widely-accepted cosmological model, when the...
Off The Kuff

An erratic look at Day One turnout in a few counties - I’d love to give you a full-ish look at Day One primary turnout around the state, but that data is harder to find than you might think. The current SOS int...
Slate

Help! My Husband Has Been Secretly Fulfilling His “Needs” for Years. Now I Have a Plan That’s Really Freaking Him Out. - Not sure what his hang-up is here, considering.
San Antonio Report

Bexar County to invest in new tech to analyze jail phone calls - The Bexar County Sheriff’s Office plans to expand its jail intelligence program using a $2.6 million federal earmark to analyze inmate communications. ----...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

A Flood of Open House Seats—But Not Competitive Open Seats - A hefty number of House retirements means that the number of incumbents seeking reelection this year will be among the lowest in any election since the e...
The Root

MLB Union Leader Resigns Over ‘Inappropriate Relationship’ Similar to Sherrone Moore - When the alleged scandal was revealed, Clark resigned as executive director of the MLBPA after serving for more than 12 years. Read more...
Countercurrents

Appeal to President: Call upon Parliament of India to Repeal VB-GRAMG Act, Restore & Strengthen MGNREGA - To, Hon’ble Droupadi Murmu, President of India, Rashtrapati Bhavan, New Delhi Sub: Appeal to call upon Parliament of India to Repeal VB-GRAMG Ac...
Grist

The cowboy who got rich selling veggie burgers - To see the future of food, look no further than Sam Cobb, the cattle rancher making soy-based Boca Burgers.
High Country News

The little-known photographer who documented a changing Okanogan, Washington - [image: Frank Matsura poses with his photography equipment in Okanogan, Washington, circa 1903-1913.] A century later, Frank Matsura’s images are still at...
The AltWorld

The US endgame in Iran and is Russia bailing out Israel in Gaza? - My two reports for UK Column News yesterday In yesterday’s news programme, I cover the latest on […] The post The US endgame in Iran and is Russia bailin...
The Daily Poster

He Sent One Email. Then Federal Agents Came To His Door. - Trump’s Department of Homeland Security is weaponizing a little-known legal tool to crack down on free speech — and Big Tech is complying.
Portside

Students Across the U.S. Are Protesting ICE. Texas Wants To Punish Their Schools. - Students Across the U.S. Are Protesting ICE. Texas Wants To Punish Their Schools. Mark Brody Thu, 02/19/2026 - 02:04
Counterpunch

The Life Work of Jesse Jackson - Jackson flatly rejected the notion that Americans had any common cause with the likes of Batista, Diem, Pinochet, the Shah, Somoza, and Marcos. He called...
Infidel753

Some guidelines I've found useful - A few things I've found useful for staying sane (well, san*er* than I otherwise would be) in today's world. I can't say I've adhered to these perfectly, ...
jobsanger

A New Study Says Pollution Can Cause Alzheimer's -
Informed Comment

Is Trump getting US Troops out of Syria, another nail in the Coffin of Bush’s “War on Terror?” - Trump now has a similar choice, of whether he wants to spend trillions of dollars on a Napoleonic gamble in Iran.
Wolf Street

Single-Family & Multifamily Construction: Bring on the Supply just as Population Growth Slows to a Crawl - This is precisely what this overpriced and frozen housing market needs.
World Socialist Web Site

Leader of Australia’s far-right One Nation party goes on Islamophobic tirade - Hanson’s comments underscore the reactionary climate that has been cultivated by the political and media establishment, particularly in the wake of the Bon...
Brad Blog

'No More Fig Leaves': Antisemitism Rising Inside MAGA, GOP: 'BradCast' 2/18/2026 - On today's BradCast: When fascism takes root, there's a whole lot more that comes with it. [Audio link to full show follows this summary.] FIRST UP TODAY.....
Claytoonz

Snorts For MAGA - Read the blog at my Substack. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the cartoonist, please donate through PayPal to clayjonz@gmail.com, Ven...
The Greanville Post

Vijay Prashad EVISCERATES Marco “Narco” Rubio + Iran, Cuba, & Venezuela Updates - KH—Vijay Prashad talks about Cuba, Venezuela, the war on drugs and why the DEA should be going after Marco Rubio. But first Iranian-American analyst Etan M...
Alternet

Top red state Republican in hot-seat after 'profane tirade' against the GOP - A candidate for Republican House speaker in Alabama is facing ouster after his “profane tirade” about the Republican Party got leaked to the press. AL.co...
Progressive.org

How Trump Could Earn Farmers’ Support - A year into Trump’s second term, many farmers are worse off than they were on Inauguration Day.
Popular Resistance

Ajamu Baraka Remembers Rev. Jesse Jackson - The Rev. Jesse Jackson passed away at the age of 84 on February 17, 2026. A man who was literally at Martin Luther King’s side when he was assassinated a...
Antiwar.com

Peeling Back the US Information Operation in Iran - As part of the US campaign to engineer a regime change in Iran, the US military and intelligence community are using Operational Preparation of the Environ...
Independent Political Report

Hal Shurtleff to Deliver Guest Remarks at Constitution Party of New Hampshire’s 2026 Convention - The Constitution Party of New Hampshire has announced that Hal Shurtleff, co-founder and director of Camp Constitution, will serve as the featured guest ...
Screwston Antifascist Committee

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton Targets Screwston Anti-Fascists For Investigation - BREAKING Our organization is being targeted by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton who, on Friday, February 6th, released a public statement calling us “dera...
Political Wire

Trump Could Profit From Airport Name Change - “As the Florida Legislature ramps up efforts to rename the Palm Beach International Airport after President Donald Trump, a recent trademark filing has som...
See You In 2020

The tech nerds shoved Gen Z to the margins. Now they’re trying to prevent an uprising from the left-behinds. - This message is intended for a particular demographic, that being the ones within Gen Z who’ve been “left behind” in life by our productive mode. It’s o...
Workers World

31,000 Kaiser caregivers on strike in California - [image: 31,000 Kaiser caregivers on strike in California] Some of the Kaiser caregivers on strike in Oakland, California, Feb. 11, 2026. Oakland, Californi...
Church and State

Your genes matter more for lifespan now than they did a century ago – here’s why - How much do your genes determine how long you’ll live? It’s a question that fascinates us, and one that’s been debated for decades.
Common Dreams

Despite Relentless Attacks, Nearly Half a Million Workers Unionized in 2025 - New data released today by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics shows union representation grew by 463,000 in 2025, bringing the total number of workers r...
Texas Observer

Can Labor Candidates Help Texas Dems Win Back Power? - After pulling off an upset special election win for the solid-red Tarrant County Senate District 9 in late January, Democrat Taylor Rehmet told his cheer...
El Paso Matters

‘We’re entering the windy season:’ What to expect after El Paso’s historic dust storms of 2025 - A wet January could help suppress sources of dust around El Paso. The post ‘We’re entering the windy season:’ What to expect after El Paso’s historic du...
Sludge

Sen. Mark Warner, Palantir Critic, Took $37k From the Company’s CEO - Alexander Karp, the CEO of ICE surveillance contractor Palantir, donated in September to Warner's joint fundraising committee, leadership PAC, and the Virg...
Texas Standard

Below West Texas, divers explore the deepest underwater cave in North America - Phantom Springs Cave draws elite divers and researchers observing marine life in Texas.
Ecosophia

The Laws of Co-Creation - Last December’s contest over what theme would get discussed in the fifth Wednesday post, as I’ve noted here more than once already, was unusually lively ev...
The Texas Signal

The Race For Lieutenant Governor - The race to defeat Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick is an uphill climb in a state where the conservative incumbent is a household name and Democrats haven’t...
Duck of Minerva

Rubio’s civilizational appeals will backfire - US Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s speech at the Munich Security Conference demonstrated he is a better diplomat than Vice President J.D. Vance, although ...
Socialist Alternative

KEEP HOPE ALIVE—Jesse Jackson & Black Freedom - This article was produced as part of the work of Socialist Alternative’s Black Caucus. Follow us on Instagram for more analysis on the fight for racial jus...
Liberation News

Worst sewage leak in U.S. history threatens already strained Potomac watershed - Hundreds of millions of gallons of raw sewage have poured into the Potomac River for weeks, showing how improperly maintaining aging infrastructure poses a...
Seeing the Forest

Colbert, CBS, FCC and Election Interference - Colbert stood up to the FCC and the new CBS. This is good. But what we’re seeing here is not really a story of the little people overcoming the boot on the...
Unlimited Hangout

Robert Kadlec: The Man Behind Trump’s Biowarfare Policy - Robert Kadlec, a veteran of biowarfare with longstanding connections to the National Security State and corrupt government contractors as well as controv...
Rewire

When Racism Stops Carrying Consequences - Opinion: Trump’s attacks on the Obamas reveal what happens when open bigotry no longer disqualifies a president—and how that shift could endanger civil-r...
Dorf on Law

What I Plan to Tell the US Civil Rights Commission About Antisemitism on Campus and the Government Response Thus Far - Tomorrow I will testify at the U.S. Civil Rights Commission's briefing on Antisemitism on America's College and University Campuses: Current Conditions an...
Debunking Christianity

"Christian Nationalism—The Danger That It Poses to Our Democracy" by John W. Loftus - The following link will take you to Google Slides for my presentation on this topic. It was sponsored by CFI Indiana this past Saturday. LINK. Let me know ...
ProPublica

Amid Mass ICE Arrests, Trump Pardon Recipient Juan Orlando Hernández Given Special Treatment - The post Amid Mass ICE Arrests, Trump Pardon Recipient Juan Orlando Hernández Given Special Treatment appeared first on ProPublica.
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

'Trump administration sued over removing Stonewall Pride flag' & other Tue/Wed news briefs - *Trump administration sued over removing Stonewall Pride flag *- *As well it should. Such mean-spirited garbage. * * Here is the backstory* - *Trump adm...
Angry Bear

Short and medium term inflation, interest rates, and the overstretched consumer - The deluge of data resumes tomorrow with housing permits and starts, industrial production, and durable goods orders. In the meantime, let me make a few ...
Greg Palast

Jesse Jackson: My Reverend, My Brother - For 50 years, we fought side-by-side and sometimes fought face-to-face. He's the only man, other than my dad, I've ever kissed. A year ago, when I kissed h...
NORML

Federal Survey Data: Cannabis Use by Young People Continues Decades-Long Decline - [image: Marijuana and Youth Use][image: Marijuana and Youth Use]"These findings ought to reassure lawmakers that cannabis access can be legally regulated...
Discourse

Discourse Pod #15: Bad Bunny's Super Bowl Halftime Show, Olympics Scandals, and Complaints Dept (w/Caitlin Schneider) - Caitlin is back for another wacky and wild ride
Project Censored

The Project Censored Newsletter—January 2026 - Censored Press News Project Censored’s fiftieth anniversary yearbook, State of the Free Press 2026, has been receiving a lot of positive attention. Sheal...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

The Heritage Foundation Drove Trump’s 2025 Higher-Ed Agenda. What’s Its Plan for 2026? By Rick Seltzer | The Chronicle of Higher Education | Feb. 13, 2026 - *Friends,* *In a revealing interview in The Chronicle of Higher Education, reporter Rick Seltzer probes the next phase of the Heritage Foundation’s high...
The Grayzone

Keir Starmer-tied think tank paid PR firm to target The Grayzone - A shadowy think tank run by British PM Keir Starmer’s top strategist has been exposed for paying a PR firm to spy on journalists including me and the out...
Field Negro

The Field Negro Power Rankings. (FNPR) - 10. *Joy Reid:* She dropped down a little bit. But she is still out here contributing important social commentary and capturing the zeitgeist of our t...
Progressives Chat

Flashback 1976: The 'OCCK’ Begins - February 15, 1976—which was fifty [50] years ago from this blog topic’s publishing date—also fell on a Sunday. It turned out to the beginning of a seria...
Crooked Timber

Sunday photoblogging: Hebron Road - [image: Hebron Road]
TalkLeft

Trump Secretly Deports 9 to Cameroon in Africa - Just when you think our country is at an all-time low and things can't get any worse, Donald Trump brings us even lower. According to the New York Times ...
The Rag Blog

ROXANN WEDEGARTNER / BOOK REVIEW / From the Octagon: People, Places, News, Views by Allen Young. - By Roxann Wedegartner / The Rag Blog / February 14, 2026 Royalston, Maine, resident, author, and journalist, Allen Young, is at it again. His latest book, ...
Moron Majority

After Disastrous Bondi Hearing, Stetson University College of Law Issues Statement - Pam Bondi received her Juris Doctor degree from Stetson University College of Law in 1990. The Florida law school fears for its reputation after Bondi’s un...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Victories Pour In - (That Melania doc sure was a massive W if ever there was one. 11 x 17 inch medium-res color .jpg image, 1.2mb) Does having to close the Kennedy Center afte...
Edinburg Politics

Rep. Terry Canales, Mayor Omar Ochoa pay tribute to David Chavana, the “runner, icon, and the heart behind the Valley’s largest race, the Edinburg All-America City David Chavana 10K Run/Walk” - Graciela Moreno Chavana on Tuesday, February 3, 2026 was presented a framed House of Representatives Memorial Resolution – along with a Texas State Flag fl...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: BIG FASH AND SMALL VICTORIES EDITION. - *Eatin' up suckers as if I was Pac-Man.* Even though they lie like they breathe and are still fucking shit up in Minneapolis, the administration’s announ...
DeSmogBlog

Trump EPA Abandons Climate Working Group Report in Endangerment Finding Repeal - In a massive blow to the handful of scientists and academics who still dispute widely-accepted climate science, the Trump administration discarded a sign...
The Militant

SWP call to action: US hands off Cuba! End Washington’s economic blockade! - A Call to Action by the Socialist Workers Party The following statement was released February 7, 2026, by Jack Barnes, national secretary of the Socialist ...
Trivial Knot

That time I interviewed a fraud - Here’s a story about a job candidate I interviewed who seemed to be engaging in some sort of AI-assisted fraud. Before the interview even occurred, there w...
Green Pages News

Appetites - You cannot stop smoking although you know it is killing your lungs. You cannot stop eating although you know it is killing your heart. You cannot stop prod...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio February 13, 2026 - Black Agenda Radio February 13, 2026 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 02/13/2026 - 06:08 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agen...
Lowering the Bar

U.S. Pat. No. 8,667,956: Controllable [Human] Launcher - [image: patent illustration of person launcher]Looks fun! I'll go second.
Dissent Magazine

Philanthropy for Radicals - The Garland Fund was not a typical foundation, but its history shows the potential role philanthropy can play in moments of rising authoritarianism—and t...
Environment Texas

A little good news: Study shows declining PFAS levels in Great Lakes fish - When manufacturers stopped using some ‘forever chemicals’, the concentration of those chemicals in fish dropped faster than expected. The post A little g...
Krebs on Security

Kimwolf Botnet Swamps Anonymity Network I2P - For the past week, the massive "Internet of Things" (IoT) botnet known as Kimwolf has been disrupting the The Invisible Internet Project (I2P), a decentral...
Free & Equal

How Do We Empower The Next Generation? w/ Ron Paul - Join Christina Tobin, Chair of Free and Equal Elections Foundation, as she and Former U.S. Attorney David Katz join NewsNation to discuss what President ...
Earthworks

News to Know: We Caught #MethanePollution From 🛰️ Space. Here’s Why It Matters - Read the Financial Times story here: Big US gas producers are methane super emitters, environmental groups’ data shows. For 10 … The post News to Know: ...
LareDOS

Center for the Arts with Contemporary - Art Month San Antonio presents: Unbound
Land Destroyer

US Consolidates Control Over Proxies Amid War on Multipolarism - *February 2, 2026* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - Behind the political theater that is the “US-European split,” exists an aggressive campaign of US consolidation...
Alas, a Blog

The Obsession - This cartoon is by me and frequent collaborator Nadine Scholtes. In December 2025, Representative Sarah McBride – who is herself trans – commented about he...
MintPress News

The US Military Aided Mass Child Rape in Afghanistan. Now Its Soldiers Are Committing This Crime At Fort Bragg - There is an epidemic of child sex crimes in and around Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Since 2021, and the American withdrawal from Afghanistan, dozens of el...
Democracy Chronicles

State of Power: Marx, Democracy, and the ICE Crisis in Minneapolis - In the early weeks of 2026, the streets of Minneapolis became unexpectedly dark. What began as an immigration enforcement regime has morphed into a nationa...
Idavox

Chip Berlet (1949-2026) - When neo-fascists began to be followed and recorded, it was Chip that was the one... The post Chip Berlet (1949-2026) appeared first on Idavox.
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report January 2026 - Walmart had another six shootings in January 2026, with the first three killing one person each, two of those fatal shootings were by police, the third ...
nonsite.org

Was This Trip Really Necessary? - Suther’s goal is to establish new “methodological imperatives.” His way of going about it is characteristically inflationary in terms of proposing new noti...
The Disorder Of Things

Call for Participation: Women, Peace and Security Research Network UK - Date: Tuesday 19 May 2026 Venue: Queen Mary University of London Format: A one-day event with 20-25 participants The Women, Peace and Security (WPS) UK Res...
slacktivist

Smart people saying smart things (1.29.26) - Adam Serwer. Rebecca Solnit. Kat Armas. Angela Denker. Heather L. Hart. Mark Jacob.
Web of Debt

The Wealth Concentration Engine: Rethinking America’s Financial Plumbing - A Jan. 17 article on Quartz Markets by Catherine Baab reports that JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Wells Fargo, Citigroup and Bank of America returned nearl...
Consent Factory, Inc.

The Golden Age of America Made Great Again - Has America been made great again enough for you yet? I asked that question back in May of last year in a column titled The Godzilla Window. It didn’t go o...
Dandelion Salad

Marxist Scholar Michael Parenti Dies at 92 + When you had the Crisis of Capitalism, Fascism is an Attempt at a Final Solution to the Class Struggle - Michael died Saturday, January 24, 2026. My sincere condolences and deepest sympathies to all his family, friends and readers. He will be missed by many. —...
Avedon's Sideshow

All you gotta do is call - Neat, short little memo with useful graphs: "To: Interested Democrats From: Senators Chris Murphy, Adam Schiff, Tina Smith, and Elizabeth Warren Date: Jan...
Media Lens

‘The Weak Must Suffer’: The Eternal Fiction Of The ‘International Rules-Based Order’ - These are exceptional times. The United States has been threatening to take over Greenland, an aggressive move against Europe. Now, and only now, are polit...
Daily Dot

Rumors that the Starbucks unicorn frappe will return are rampant on TikTok, but is it just more 2016 nostalgia? - [image: starbucks unicorn frappe] People on social media are expressing nostalgia for Starbucks’ discontinued Unicorn Frappe—and spreading rumors about i...
Dispatches from the Underclass

Iran, Venezuela, Palestine: The Collapse of International Law | Craig Mokhiber - We’re joined live by former UN human rights official Craig Mokhiber, whose recent Mondoweiss article, “Ushering in the age of impunity: Venezuela, Palestin...
Texas Freedom Network

Texas Invited Christian Nationalism Into Every Public High School. We Should All Be Alarmed. - By Felicia MartinPresident & Executive Director, Texas Freedom Network Texas crossed a dangerous line in the separation of church and state that should a...
Reform Austin

A Farewell from Reform Austin - After much reflection, we’ve made the difficult decision to close down Reform Austin. Since our inception, our mission has been to provide Texans with re...
Two Party Opera

Illegal Orders - Read More
Reading the Pictures

Democracy Was the Target, DEI Was the Scapegoat: Key Pictures of 2025 - Trump killed DEI and called it a win. What he really killed: due process, free speech, sanctuary, and dignity. The post Democracy Was the Target, DEI Was...
Reveal

How a US Citizen Was Scanned With ICE’s Facial Recognition Tech - [image: Two federal agents are standing in the sun wearing police vests. One agent is holding a cell phone.] Jesus Gutiérrez told immigration agents he wa...
Campaign for America's Future

It Is Up to Us to Defend Democracy - Do we have the courage to defeat an authoritarian regime? I believe we do, if we organize strategically and effectively. There is no time to waste. Do we...
ExChristian.Net

Turn off the Light - *By BlackFreethought ~ * Once I took off the mask and removed the veneer of Christianity during this second deconstruction, the world became a more scary...
Texas Monthly

The Daily Crossword: November 18, 2025 - [image: Tuesday Crossword Illustration] The post The Daily Crossword: November 18, 2025 appeared first on Texas Monthly.
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Does Tylenol use by pregnant women cause autism, as Texas Attorney General (and McKinney resident) Ken Paxton alleges? - No. The post Does Tylenol use by pregnant women cause autism, as Texas Attorney General (and McKinney resident) Ken Paxton alleges? appeared first on D ...
American Prospect

More State (or Is It Just Trump?) Capitalism - Treasury’s Bessent says the feds will jump into pharmaceuticals and shipbuilding. California’s Newsom says the state has produced and will sell insulin at ...
WAWG Blog

Creating a Democratic Socialist State in USofA - I asked Proton’s Lumo AI tool about creating a democratic socialist state in the United States of America. Our authoritarian capitalism has led to massiv...
Progressive Army

Acta de reunión de comisión directiva - Estimados socios buenos días: Les hacemos llegar en adjunto acta número 920 relacionada a la reunión de comisión directiva realizada el día miércoles 24 ...
The Socialist

เว็บแทงหวยออนไลน์ที่ดีที่สุด – Best Online Lottery Betting Site - เลือกเว็บแทงหวยออนไลน์ที่ดีที่สุด - เว็บหวยออนไลน์ที่ครบวงจร The post เว็บแทงหวยออนไลน์ที่ดีที่สุด – Best Online Lottery Betting Site appeared first on เ...
Rio Grande Guardian

Smith: Border Days - Border chronicler Morgan Smith recaps a two-day trip he recently made to Mexico, including stops in Anapra, Juárez, and Palomas. The post Smith: Border D...
GreenSource DFW

Commercial clients lining up for quiet, all-electric landscaping service - *The Greener Good crew manicuring the grounds at Southlake’s Delta Hotel by Marriott in July. Photo courtesy of the Greener Good.* Aug. 8, 2025 At least...
Nina Illingworth

Journal: Courage, Cowardice, and Collaboration - Rashid Khalidi's recent stand against Columbia University's collaboration with Trump's fascist cultural agenda is important; more US educators should joi...
Stinque

Tom Lehrer, 1928-2025 - The post Tom Lehrer, 1928-2025 appeared first on Stinque.
Bud Kennedy

Joe Rogan tells Texas Democrat James Talarico, ‘You need to run.’ Does he? | Opinion - If Texas Democrats need young talent, James Talarico is a start. The 36-year-old Texas House lawmaker from Round Rock is not far removed from his days as J...
ROAR Magazine

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Speak Freely (ACLU)

Live Coverage: Final SCOTUS Decision Day -
Eater Houston

The Best Hidden Gem Restaurants in Houston - [image: A person serves a matcha martini at Bar Doko.] Let Eater point you to some of the most underrated and under-the-radar restaurants in Houston. | Mi...
Ring of Fire

Trump Threatens Media Outlet Over Don Jr’s Comparison To Hunter Biden - Donald Trump Jr. has been crisscrossing the planet using his dad’s name, his name, of course, to get all of these business deals and put money in his poc...
Southeast Texas Record

Case activity for Maa Wwarrs -Maa Vintage Park, LLC vs Keidre Mccall on May 14 - The Harris County Civil Court reported the following activities in the suit brought by Jack Garland Jr. and Maa Wwarrs -Maa Vintage Park, LLC against All...
Save Buffalo Bayou

Cutting Forest for Stormwater Basins - Is that A Good Idea? The Value of Lost Ecosystem Services April 29, 2025 Digging out the land to create basins to hold stormwater and prevent flooding is a...
Texans For Public Justice

New Report & Tool to Track Flaring - The “Texas Flaring Project” released a website and a report today analyzing how the state’s oil and gas industry wastes valuable natural gas by flaring a...
Political Garbage Chute

Why Did The Secretary of Defense Text Me Dick Pics and Nuclear Launch Codes? - “I’m Prince of War now, got it? I’ll do what I want. Text what and who I want.” Well, that was a new one. I have to say in all my years covering politics...
Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

Degrowth’s unhelpful contribution to global environmental challenges: A rejoinder to a critique of growth contingency - I write in response to the recent critique by Terry Leahy of my article ‘Beyond green growth, degrowth, post-growth and growth agnosticism’ in JAPE (94, ...
Polygraph (global fact-check)

Vatican: Francis stable, out of ‘imminent danger’ of death - The Vatican press office is changing the frequency of the pope’s health updates
Equality Texas

Remembering Sylvester Turner - Today, we mourn the sudden loss of Congressman Sylvester Turner. A lifelong Houstonian and dedicated public servant, Turner was a member of the Texas Hous...
The Mind Unleashed

Tesla Shares Fall After Massive Drop In Sales - Tesla’s stock value has taken a significant hit, dropping over 9% following a sharp decline in sales across the UK and European Union in January. This down...
The Reality-Based Community

Nhận định soi kèo Erzurumspor vs Pendikspor lúc 17h30 ngày 06/3/2025 - Tiếp tục với giải Hạng Nhì Thổ Nhĩ Kỳ, khi bước vào vòng 28, người hâm mộ sẽ được chứng kiến một trong những trận đấu hấp dẫn diễn ra giữa Erzurumspor và...
CPI's Danger in the Air

Public Integrity’s “40 Acres and a Lie” project is honored by the Philip Meyer Journalism Awards - [image: A collage illustration that pairs pictures of William T. Sherman with Trinity Church in Edisto, South Carolina. Overlaying Sherman is a snippet of ...
Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center

Anti-Immigrant Group FAIR Taps Controversial Former Sheriff to Serve in Adviser Role - A law enforcement figure associated with the extremist “constitutional sheriff” ideology will serve as an adviser for the anti-immigrant hate group Federat...
New Progressive Alliance

2024 Annual Report - *2024 Annual Report* - Publishing in social media means publishing a reference in Facebook at Colorado Best Democracy, Greens Discuss the Issues, L...
Texas Watch

In the News: Insurance Crisis Hurting Texans - We have been updating you throughout the year on the insurance crisis gripping our state and our nation. Insurance companies have *hiked our rates beyon...
BEYONDbones

Winter Solstice | Final Sky Happenings of 2024 - Editor’s Note: Look to the sky as HMNS Astronomer talks winter solstice for the final sky happenings of 2024. Thank you for watching the stars alongside ...
Border/Lines

The immigration 'vibe shift'—11-19-24 - Immigration news, in context.
Robert Reich

How We Take Back the Supreme CourtWhere do you see yourself in... - *How We Take Back the Supreme Court* Where do you see yourself in 2060? What about your kids or grandkids? Will Donald Trump be affecting your life even ...
Grits for Breakfast

Grits publishes "Tulia" zine for 25th anniversary: Preorder now! - Until Jeff Frazier and the good folks at Mano Amiga in San Marcos reached out about their event Monday night, I had not realized it was the 25th anniversar...
Right Wing Watch

Right Wing Round-Up: One Really Violent Day - Marshall Cohen and Daniel Dale @ CNN: Fact check: 12 election lies Trump is using to set the stage to dispute a potential 2024 defeat Former President Do...
Dos Centavos

Ay Te Watcho, Houston - Well, if you’re reading this on this Labor Day, these words are being typed from Northern Colorado. After 26 years of living in Houston and 53 in Texas, it...
Morning Consult

Replicating Experimental Findings with Online Panels - The post Replicating Experimental Findings with Online Panels appeared first on Morning Consult.
TXElects

Consistency in Texas: Trump Maintains Lead Over Biden in Latest Polls - *By Jeff Blaylock – Founder & Senior Editor* *JUNE. 20, 2024* Stop me if you’ve heard this before. Former President Trump leads President Biden by 7 po...
CT's short stories and novelettes

Grape - “I can jump a ship there. Just get me in the city limits. I will take it from there.” “How many sapiens did you kill?” “Five. Why do you want to know?”...
The Intercept

In No Labels Call, Josh Gottheimer, Mike Lawler, and University Trustees Agree: FBI Should Investigate Campus Protests - The bipartisan duo also praised schools that brought in police to violently quell protests and connected the demonstrations to the TikTok ban. The post I...
The Stars Hollow Gazette

NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament 2024: Second Four Play Ins - This s the second night of the women’s Play-Ins.Here are last night’s winners and losers: Time Network Seed School Record Region Score Seed School Record R...
Texas Environmental News

How US Air Pollution, Ironically, Has Kept Climate Hazards in Check - The past half-century has seen remarkable improvements in air quality in many parts of the world, thanks largely to legislation [...] The post How US Air...
Shadowproof

Shadowproof Is Shutting Down - After eight years, we have decided that it is time to shut down Shadowproof, but that does not mean that the independent journalism that we fostered is c...
One People's Project

2023 Year End Campaign! - The time has come to ask for your help as we head along into what promises to be one busy 2024! 2023 Year End Campaign
Innocence Project

Perry Lott is Exonerated After 35 Years of Wrongful Conviction in Ada, Oklahoma - The post Perry Lott is Exonerated After 35 Years of Wrongful Conviction in Ada, Oklahoma appeared first on Innocence Project.
Latino Rebels

Neuro-Inclusivity, Belonging and Radical Hospitality - Latino Rebels Radio goes on the road for a live podcast recording at Mitchell College in New London, Connecticut. Host Julio Ricardo Varela welcomes seve...
FiveThirtyEight.com

What Americans Think Of The Biden Impeachment Inquiry - Welcome to Pollapalooza, our weekly-ish polling roundup. It’s officially impeachment season again. On Tuesday, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy announc...
Tribune of the People

Tribune of the People was the news organ of a political cult called the “CR-CPUSA” and collapsed in March 2022 - Read about what happened here: https://maoistcultexposed.wordpress.com/ This website belonged to a political cult called the “Committee to Reconstitute the...
Caitlin Johnstone

CaitlinJohnstone.com Is Now At CaitlinJohnstone.com.au - Hello subscribers, As you may have noticed, our website at caitlinjohnstone.com has been reduced to a shuffle lately, suffering repeated 502 errors for rea...
So Far From Heaven (Jack Purcell, RIP)

Draw an Ask Old Jules card on YouTube - Hello everyone, I decided to upload videos of drawing one card at a time on YouTube. This will happen three times a week. If you want to go over and look, ...
Lawfare

UN Special Rapporteur Releases Guantánamo Report - On June 26, United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Counter-Terrorism Fionnuala Ní Aoláin released her report following a technical visit ...
In These Times

How Israeli Spyware Endangers Activists Across the Globe - Israeli surveillance technology is empowering antidemocratic governments to track journalists and human rights activists. Regulation is virtually nonexistent.
News Junkie

Mayotte Crisis: Putrid Leftover of France’s Imperialist and Colonialist Scrooge? - The cycle of empires It is not as if President Macron and his administration needed a new crisis to add to the turmoil of his second term in power. Unlike ...
DBC Green

Happy Art Car, Y'All! - (function(jQuery) {function init() { window.wSlideshow && window.wSlideshow.render({elementID:"840112064306859282",nav:"thumbnails",navLocation:"bottom",cap...
Buzzflash

Rebecca Solnit: "Forget Geoengineering. We Need To Stop Burning Fossil Fuels. Right Now." - The Guardian
Living Blue in Texas

TEXIT: The Conservative Movement To Turn Texas Into A White Ethnostate - Unpacking “Texit” and the potential consequences of secession. A few years ago, we wrote “QAnon Conspiracies And Neo-Confederate Beliefs Behind Texit Movem...
Eclectablog

Making democracy work for our environment – wsg Nayyirah Shariff & Sean McBrearty - Nayyirah Shariff on Twitter: @NayyirahShariff Flint Rising on Twitter: @FlintRising Flint Rising's website: FlintRising.com Sean McBrearty on Twitter: @Sea...
Echidne of the Snakes

Happy 2023 To All Of You - I have often come back here to try to write some sort of a conclusion to the years of activity on this site, but have not figured out what, exactly, to s...
VICE

Three UFOs Shot Down by US Weren't Chinese Spy Balloons: Biden - However, President Joe Biden did not say what the three objects were, saying the military is still searching for the debris.
Texas Moratorium Network

Senator Sarah Eckhardt Files Bill to Abolish Death Penalty - A State Senator we wrote asking to file a bill to abolish the death penalty has filed a bill to abolish the death penalty. So, we have a senate sponsor o...
Media Myth Alert

Taking stock: Top mythbusting posts of 2022 - Media Myth Alert directed attention periodically in 2022 to the appearance of well-known media-driven myths, those prominent tales about the news media tha...
Due Dissidence

Liz Truss Finally Made Neoliberalism Toxic - by Jack Carolan Liz Truss spent her childhood accompanying her father, a leftist University professor, on marches against the Thatcher government. It might...
Duffel Blog

Make-A-Wish kid gets 'Day 1 recycled' at Ranger school - “Rules are rules,” said a Ranger Instructor.
Strategic Culture Foundation

WHO Chief, TPLF Leader Tedros Silent About His Party’s Theft of World Food Program Fuel - UN World Health Organization chief Dr. Tedros Adhanom is also the world’s most prominent advocate of the Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front. He has said no...
BillMoyers.com

PODCAST: Dr. Bandy Lee Saw It Coming – The Violence Foretold in Donald Trump’s Election - Our democracy has been eroding in tandem with the rise in inequality, says Dr. Lee. The Trump presidency is not really about Donald Trump the individual....
Downwinders at Risk

With Historic Rebuke, EPA Sends GAF Permit Back to Austin…and a Message to Company - When Janie Cisneros and her Singleton United contingent met with EPA Region Six Director Dr. Earthea Nance and her staff on June 1, one of the residents’ g...
Chicken Fried Politics

Symbolic solution in search of an actual problem - Support of 9 Southern Republicans for Respect for Marriage Act shows why Supreme Court isn’t about to ban same-sex marriage ♦By Rich Shumate, ChickenFriedP...
Pages of Victory

The Road to Hell -
The Contributor

34 Senate Republicans oppose even debating gun safety compromise bill - News Image: Every Democrat and 14 Republicans in the Senate voted to consider bipartisan compromise gun safety legislation. Category: Guns in America ori...
Bayou Brief

Tilly Snyder Is Missing Again - Wikipedia’s decision to permanently delete John K. Snyder’s page cannot erase the true story of one of the most eccentric politicians in Louisiana history ...
Washington Babylon

Sub to Our Stack! - [image: Sub to Our Stack!] Hey! We’re back! It’s been a while but *Washington Babylon* is back up and running. Read more @ Washington Babylon...
Talking Points Memo

Scott Pruitt, Yes That Scott Pruitt, Is Running For Senate - Nearly four years after he resigned from the Trump administration amid a cloud of scandal and profligate spending of taxpayer...
Liberal America

Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine and Republicans’ Identity Crisis - This week, Russian president Vladimir Putin ordered his long-anticipated, unprovoked invasion of Ukraine. No sooner did this happen than Donald Trump–the...
Popehat

Customer Agent Rendering - A customer representative or perhaps buyer broker is the strategy of a brokerage or property broker symbolizing a client in an financial commitment transac...
epic.org

EPIC, Coalition Urge FTC to Issue Rules Protecting Consumers Against Data Abuse and Discrimination - Today, EPIC and a coalition of 44 consumer advocacy, civil rights, and media democracy groups urged the Federal Trade Commission to initiate a rulemaking t...
Truthdig

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Malady

Capital’s profitability now depends on ‘lockdowns’, acute social enclosure, and ‘medical’ tyranny - * *This essay was originally posted in April 2021 (and regularly updated) on Medium.com but was censored in September and then put “under investigation”. H...
Freethought Now

FFRF’s Freethought Now Blog has moved! - FFRF has moved our blog, Freethought Now! Check out our new blog today.
Louis Proyect

The Future of this Blog - Update: this site has now returned to its free version at https://louisproyect.wordpress.com … i do not know how much longer https://louisproyect.org will ...
INSIDER - politics news

TikTok extremism exposed: over 1,000 videos found including Holocaust denial, white supremacy, and ISIS propaganda, according to new report - [image: TikTok] Summary List Placement New research released by a counter-extremism think tank found that over 1,000 TikToks featuring hate speech and e...
Houston Press

Simone Biles Also Withdraws From Individual All-Around in a Post-Karolyi Era - After her shocking withdrawal from the U.S. women’s gymnastics team finals on Tuesday due to mental health concerns, Houston’s own Simone Biles has now—per...
Dallas Observer

'Viruses Are Going to Virus': COVID-19 Infections Rise Among Vaccinated Texans - Several fully vaccinated Texas Democratic lawmakers have tested positive for COVID-19, becoming some of the most widely publicized instances of so-called "...
Progressives Everywhere

Ohio’s Gerrymandered Theocracy Exhibit the Stakes of Voting Rights - Inaction of voting rights will be very deadly
Anti-Media

Peer-Reviewed and Published: Adoption of Ivermectin to Combat COVID-19 is Justified - The study's authors conclude that "large reductions in COVID-19 deaths are possible using ivermectin."
Bad Attitudes

Big Government Handouts - Recently, Elon Musk beat out Jeff Bezos for a 2.9 billion contract from NASA to fly one of his magnificent exploding rocket ships to the moon. In true Am...
PBD - Progressive Blog Digest

46 - Joe Biden, the president of the United States. Not a perfect president, but the perfect president for these post-Trump times. Earnest, unpretentious, good-...
Latino Decisions

Alex Padilla, Latino Champion of Voter Access, New California US Senator - In a historic event, California Secretary of State Alex Padilla has been appointed as United States Senator by Governor Gavin Newsom. Secretary Padilla...
TomDispatch

Tomgram: Andrew Bacevich, The Madness of War, American-Style - In choosing a title for his final, posthumously published book, the prominent public intellectual Tony Judt turned to a poem by Oliver Goldsmith, *The De...
Art Killing Apathy

Free Speech Is More Complicated Than You Think - By Eleanor Goldfield The truth is – words are dangerous. Words are the catalysts of all action – good or evil. To start with a cliché but solid example: ...
Defend our Movements

Assessing Tech: How We Know If It’s On Our Side - By Bex Hong Hurwitz, Tiny Gigantic Over the past months, technical research into privacy and security concerns with Zoom and Zoom’s actions in response hav...
Better Texas Blog

New Census Data Confirms Texas Needs to Equitably Invest in Anti-Poverty Programs - Looking for analysis of the new health insurance numbers released this week? Check out our blog here! Although median income and poverty rates improved ...
Texas Rural Voices

“IT’s” the RACISM, STUPID! - It is at the center of our national attention. And, justifiably so. It’s presence permeates our national psyche, whether we acknowledge it or not. We...
PERRspectives

On the Ground Update: Acting DHS Secretary Wolf Understates Portland Crisis - Over the past 24 hours, Acting Department of Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf has faced a firestorm of criticism for his over-the-top rhetoric and gra...
Austin 360

Neuron Garage - Neuron Garage Camp Expands to 12 Locations for Summer 2020! Austin-based day camp, Neuron Garage, is quickly gaining a loyal following as the Hands-On Bu...
Think 3 Institute

What is it about Trump? - *P*art of it is this: millions of people who'd never want Donald Trump to be their boss now feel that he has become, or is becoming, exactly that. Somethin...
IVN

Long Live the Crackpots! - Long Live the Crackpots! Those of us who had been part of and partners with the Perot rebellion knew that the official “branding” of Ross Perot was alrea...
Modern Democracy

Roberts’ Next Thicket?: The Coming One-Person, One-Vote Battle Over “How Much is Too Much” - Recently, Nick Stephanopoulos pointed out how Rucho was written as if constitutional racial vote dilution claims never existed. The same might also be said...
The Metaphor Project

Say: “Move America Forward?” - In the first Democratic presidential debate, Andrew Yang proposed a slogan, “Not left, not right, forward!” The next day I corrected it on Twitter to be “...
Truthout

Despite Shutdown, Trump Is Pushing Forward Plans to Drill in Arctic - With Trump, oil drilling takes priority over essential services like trash pickup in national parks.
Splinter

Someone threatened to set a University of Michigan student on fire for wearing a hijab. This must stop. - Steps away from the University of Michigan campus in Ann Arbor, a stranger approached a student and threatened to set her on fire with a lighter, police ...

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